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Pokemon Dream World ID Exchange Thread

Want to make Dream World friend with people you know from the Forums? This is the place to come! Using a special method, you can.

Original thread on Bulbagarden forums, HERE. I'm not taking credit for this. Just tellin' you how.

Information you may want to know.
Ever wondered why you've never been able to find someone on the dream world? Well, it could either be an unfortunate coincidence, or there could be a reason for this. You see, the Pokemon Dream World has Four Servers with different people on each server. You have a server. And you can only make friends with someone on that server. It's just the way the Dream World works, unfortunately. Not even the method here will work on other servers. But it does make looking for people on your server ridiculously easy.

What you'll need.

You will need Global Link and Dream World, and the ability to get friends. If you're still using the trial version, this won't work.

Your DW Server and ID on that server. Information is below regarding this.

The DW Server and ID of whoever you want to befriend. People will post them here.

Step One- Getting your Server and Id Number.
You will need these, as said, to be able to connect with others. The Server number will tell you if you can connect to people and is used later on. The ID Number is for other people to know.

The Steps to this are below:

First, open the Global Link. You will, obviously, already need and account and Pokemon Black/White and No Trial version.

Clicking on that link will either download a text file or show some blank text in your browser in a new tab. It should look something like this: Click Me!

Now then, the final part. On your text file, you should have two things amongst all of the jumbled mess of characters. Use Ctrl + F [Google Chrome, not sure for otehr users] to find things quicker. You want to look for:

“member_savedata_id”:“[ID#]”

“world_id”:“[#]”

Note: The # signs and the Square brackets won't be there, instead there will be your number.

The First number if your Individual ID. As you may be able to see form my picture, mine is 948133.
The second number corresponds to your server number. It'll be 1-4. Mine is 3, as you may be able to see from the picture.

Finally, post the result here! I will have a list later in this post of everyone's Server and ID for those who want to add people.

Step Two- "Visiting" someone else's island.
Now we get down to actually adding someone. But before we can Virtually request their friendship, we have to virtually find the person's island. here is how you do this:

Get the Server Number [Providing it matches your own] and the ID Number of the person you want to visit/befriend.

Log into the Global Link.

Go to the Dream World and your Dream Isle. You must be on the Dream World for this to work. Just seen this thread and just woke up your Pokemon? Too bad, wait 'till tomorrow.

Now you will need to enter the data of the other person.
Where you see this: [“pdw#.pokemon-gl.com”] Post in the server Number. The # should be the server ID (1, 2, 3, 4).
And where you see this: [“savedata%5Fid=######”], Enter the person's ID. The ###### should be the user ID of the person you want to befriend.

You've now "visited" them!

Step Three- Sending a friend request
Ok, so you've "visited" the person you want to befriend. Now, you "befriend" them. Once again, you don't actually have to find the person to do this. See how here:[*]Stay logged in on The Dream World [And therefore the Global Link].[*]Open a new tab and post this second code. It looks very similar to the first one, but it's slightly different.

[*]Once again, now you need to enter the other person's data.
Where you see this: [“pdw#.pokemon-gl.com”] Post in the server Number. The # should be the server ID (1, 2, 3, 4).
And where you see this: [“savedata%5Fid=######”], Enter the person's ID. The ###### should be the user ID of the person you want to befriend.[*]If the browser returns with [“{joined=0}”] when you press enter, that means the befriending was successful. Your request will appear on the person's Dream World like any normal request and if they accept it, you'll be friends!

Still need it clear? Here's an example.
Ok, want to see it in action? Ok. Well, let's say I want to add Will-powered-Spriter [A.K.A WPS], who was kind enough to give me his world and ID in the Dream World Discussion thread. He, like me, is World 3, and has an ID No of 1231435.

PGL name : Brightshine for both the above games, they're registered on the same account
If you want to befriend me, please befriend the B2 one since it needs the points gained from befriending, my Black already has enough friends and points, thank you

My shinies are not for trade or cloning.
Shinies are not listed in order, for example the last shiny on the banner is not always the latest shiny I've obtained.
Banner 1 made by Light Venusaur, thanks ^_^

It should be noted that if we do it right, each person should be able to add just one or people and be still able to access everyone else from serebii on their server, provided they're not on friends only (why would you be). We can get a network going here!

WPS- Agreed. This is a good may to boost our points and item list quicker. Think about it: Each person has one berry type on their share shelf. All you need to do it go to each person and you'll have every berry type very, very quickly.
To add to this, we also tell anyone on the community to not water their own berries. That may others can water them. The amount of times I''ve visited a "good" player [As in Log House/Modern House] and their berries have all been watered recently is annoying me.

I plan on adding my White save to my Dream Pal so if my Black save has berries watered, you can try your luck with a single click or vise versa. Just let me know when you add me, I'm trying to be active there.

You need the Member Savedata ID, not the Member ID. The Member Savedata ID is never higher than the total amount of players (shown on the main PGL page).

Tom, your White's save file ID is 1836301, which is higher than the current total amount of PGL members (1822640) so you must have listed a Member ID instead of a Member Savedata ID. Which led me to believe your Black's save file ID is also a Member ID instead of a Member Savedata ID.

same goes to mixtar and Quackquack on page 1, who also listed Member ID instead of Member Savedata ID.

My shinies are not for trade or cloning.
Shinies are not listed in order, for example the last shiny on the banner is not always the latest shiny I've obtained.
Banner 1 made by Light Venusaur, thanks ^_^

Tom, your White's save file ID is 1836301, which is higher than the current total amount of PGL members (1822640) so you must have listed a Member ID instead of a Member Savedata ID. Which led me to believe your Black's save file ID is also a Member ID instead of a Member Savedata ID.

same goes to mixtar and Quackquack on page 1, who also listed Member ID instead of Member Savedata ID.

My shinies are not for trade or cloning.
Shinies are not listed in order, for example the last shiny on the banner is not always the latest shiny I've obtained.
Banner 1 made by Light Venusaur, thanks ^_^

Ah, sorry. x.x
I assumed the number on the page was updated in realtime, since when I checked newly-made accounts they were always below it, but perhaps it isn't. Which makes me wonder, just how often is it updated...
In the end I guess fourteen thousand is a negligable amount compared to 1.8 million and so if you just made the White account it'd be fine.
Any supposed 'member savedata ID's currently over 2 million though are obviously misreading the data. (Though soon, PGL will probably pass 2 million anyway, so if it was just said that 'anything over 2m is wrong', that too would be incorrect in a later time...)

Another way to confirm would be the profile link, which takes member savedata IDs, in the form http://en.pokemon-gl.com/profile/?id=1111110 or similar, (replacing 1111110 with the proper member savedata ID) and if that shows correctly (as in, doesn't give a 'No user in that category!' error, but rather an actual profile or an actual permission error) then that number is a valid member savedata ID.

Edit: Interesting, the site's back up and the number of members is only at 1823598. I guess there must be 15k+ deleted accounts...